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Angel of Better Days to Come

Rockets of blind faith

sputter and crackle dead dreams––

like time bleeding stars.

Through soft painted moans

a man watches his life drown

in waves of glass bones.

Celestial winds

blow chilled screams for love’s…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 20, 2012 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

10 Great Pages in My Very Own Google Plus Directory

(Aberjhani art graphic by Don Dean with original photo by Kathleen Thomas)

So many new apps, websites, and other technology innovations pop up daily on the Internet that one can sometimes cluster…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on November 29, 2011 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Tough Love from Author Enablers Helps Get the Writing Job Done

Authors Sam Barry and Kathi Kamen Goldmark.

WRITE THAT BOOK ALREADY! is a great volume for aspiring and established authors because the motivation, empowerment, and very useful knowledge it provides do not come to an end once you…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 4, 2011 at 10:30am — 4 Comments

Events, Books Highlight Flannery O'Connor Legacy (part 1)

(Photo of Savannah Mayor Otis Johnson atop a St. Patrick's Day Parade float in Savannah, Georgia, by author and photographer Ellis Garvin)

As close to a million or more people pour…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 15, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Unfolding History of the 21st Century

The great educator and humanitarian W.E.B. Du Bois. (photo public domain)

The publication of “Black History Month: What Would DuBois Do?”…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on February 26, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

The Big Buzz on Google's Big News

Detail from Google ebookstore courtesy of Google

Following up on the promise to launch its new eBook store before the end of the year 2010, Google eBooks did exactly that last week. There are some major differences between the Google Editions and other eBooks.…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on December 12, 2010 at 6:21pm — No Comments

Angel of Earth Days and Seasons

A soft dream of green

colors starlit intentions

with sincerity.

In your hands winter

is a book with cloud pages

that snow pearls of love.

Your flight shines classic––

composed of symphonic nights

and honey-hued days.

Inside your laughter

spring’s kiss animates the beat

of summer’s warm song.

In your hair oceans

leap with sky-blue abandon

and… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on December 4, 2010 at 3:30pm — 7 Comments

Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black: It's All About the Sharing

The forthcoming publication of Collected Visions of a Skylark Dressed…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on December 1, 2010 at 9:45pm — No Comments

Time (once again) to be the Sun

The words on the image are actually excerpts from the longer poem below. They were the ones that seemed to call out and beg to be attached to this photo of me modeling for a mask created by my friend Michele and later used as part of a sculpture.…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on November 5, 2010 at 12:02am — No Comments

Parisian Surrealism comes to city of Savannah

Over the June 12, 2010, weekend, The Paris-based 1920s-1930s art and literary movement known as surrealism made a spectacular comeback in the form…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 20, 2010 at 5:03pm — No Comments

City of Savannah Hosts First Black Expo

Actress Nia Long was one of headliners at Savannah Black Expo 2010.

(AP photo)…

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Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on April 17, 2010 at 8:10pm — No Comments

10 Great Moments in African-American History 2009 (Special Series Part 1)

Tennis champion Serena Williams celebrates a hard-won victory. (AP photo by Rick Stevens)

From significant advances in the field of personalized medicine–– which uses information regarding an individual’s specific genetic make-up and environment to diagnose and treat diseases–– to the awarding of the Nobel Prize to five brilliant women and the “miracle on the Hudson,” the year 2009 is one that has been marked by… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on January 17, 2010 at 9:36pm — No Comments

Official Michael Jackson Opus Published: the Different Sides of a Global Icon

Michael Jackson in superhero mode by artist Nate Giorgio.

The new Official Michael Jackson Opus a 404-page 26-pound masterwork which generated tons of buzz after Kraken Opus announced its planned publication… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on December 19, 2009 at 7:25pm — No Comments

The Rise of Gullah Diva Sallie Ann Robinson

Author and celebrity chef Sallie Ann Robinson. (photo by Butch Hirsch Photography)

Celebrity chef, cookbook author, and cultural consultant on her home island of Daufuskie, South Carolina, are all titles which Sallie Ann Robinson can claim with justification after working many years to earn them. She recently added to her list of titles that of “the first Gullah Diva,” so proclaimed by members of the Binyah… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on August 2, 2009 at 11:48pm — 2 Comments

The Poetic Synergy of Shared Creativity

"Broughton Street a.k.a. BeBop Street" by 2009 King-Tisdell Fine Arts Award winner Luther E. Vann (from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love).

For the past almost two decades, I have found myself frequently inspired by the work of artist Luther E. Vann, so much so that essays and poetry derived from meditations on his metaphysical paintings and sculpture eventually helped produce the book… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 23, 2009 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Part 1 (A Juneteenth Special): Remembrance and Healing in America

The following is presented in honor of Juneteenth, the traditional commemoration of the celebration that dates back to June19, 1865, when African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned for the first time about the Emancipation Proclamation that had been issued to free them two years earlier. They decided that was a very good reason for a party and generations have kept it going every year… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 17, 2009 at 2:16pm — 1 Comment

In the Company of These Pages

Dream Reachers by Betty Dravis and Chase Von

I’ve been lucky enough and survived long enough to share pages, via such outlets as anthologies and magazines, with some fairly extraordinary company, including luminous folks like Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Sean “Puffy” Combs, the singer Maxwell, Eugene Redmond, Kalamu ya Salaam,… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 9, 2009 at 4:11pm — No Comments

Book Business Wisdom Discovered "Outside the Box"

"A Widow Remembers" artwork from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, by Luther E. Vann.

One very useful interpretation of the phrase “think outside the box” is this: remain open to good business advice from unexpected sources. Appropriately enough, I did not gain that bit of insight while reading the latest text on business strategies offered by Mellody… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on June 2, 2009 at 5:18pm — 1 Comment

Slavery by What Other Name?

(photo of a chain gang in Thomasville, Georgia, 1898, by Carl Weiss)

Ask any student of American history what year the enslavement of African Americans ended in the United States and she or he will answer with cheerful confidence, “1865” (even though President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the constitutional amendments that made it a nationally inclusive law came later).

Ask that… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on May 23, 2009 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments

Field Notes from the 2009 Book Festival Trenches (Part 3 of 3)

As a landscape coffee table gift book, ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love makes a formidable display by itself for a literary festival event. But given the fact that my co-creator for the title, Luther E. Vann, and I were sharing space with a number of outstanding exhibitors like representatives from The Book Lady Bookstore and Cherokee Publishing,… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on March 9, 2009 at 3:38pm — 1 Comment

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Barack Obama Wins 2012 Re-election: Text and Video of Victory Speech

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